The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-11

Runaway Team at Gainesville Muir.
cry Branch--Two Claimants to O
Lost SIS at Calhoun.
GEORGIA.
The Townsville Enterprise is out in a
neat new dress, and is greatly improved in
make up.
Gainesville has up to this time received
about $500 bales more than the entire re-
ceipts of last season.
Samuel Raul, of Greenville, has assigned.
His indebtedness is about 0,000, his assets,
perhaps, $1,000. He is a victim to short
collections and the general financial strin-
gency.
AT Gainesville, G. P. Boone & Bro
have sold out their general merchandise
business to Little, Whelchel q Co. The
firm consists of John f. Little, JEFF d.
Whelchel and Frank A. Watkins
A Mr.. Leadford, who has been farming
this year on the Merritt place, five miles
south of Gainesville, made with one horse
eleven bales of cotton, weighing 495 pounds
each, besides fine crop of supplies.
The residence of w. H. Ware, near JEFF
ferson, Eldridge Whiteheads plantation was
destroyed by fire on Thursday of last week
Sparks from the chimney fell on the roof,
which was very old and dry, and set it on
fire. The fire occurring in the dav time
Mr.. Ware was enabled to save the greater
portion of his furniture.
Blakely Ne,OS: We must confess some
surprise at the action of the County Com
mlssioners yesterday in postponing the in
vestigation of the books of the county
officers after the grand jury had intimated
there was crookedness in the Tax Collectors
methods, and that the commissioners had
connived at it. We think the board owe it
to Tax Collector johnson and to themselves
to make the investigation at once.
A. d. Few, a farmer who lives near Wat.
kinsville, tells tho following and takes the
cake on rsi,anS - okens: He says he has a
hen that AS Matched out five broods of
chickens rd| yea:, apd is setting at the
present tims aad viii hatch out another
brood of chickens before Christmas. Some
of the first chickens have laid and raised
broods of chickens, and thus it is that a
hen becomes grandmother in one year
R. c. Smith, of Blakely, had given him,
soon after his marriage. a kitten which is
now nearly, if not quite, IA years of age.
Mr.. Smith has been burned out once and
moved several times, and each time the
head of the family has located at a new
place the old cat has followed. She is now
a regular old grandma cat, for during her
IA years of cathood she has presented to Mr..
Smith, and he to the country at large, 1856
kittens.
Some fifty or sixty Irishmen arrived at
Blakely last week to work on the extension,
but not being satisfied with the job offered
them by the contractors, they would not go
to work. They had no money to pay their
way back to Savannah, where they came
from, and none to pay for food and lodging
and their clamors against the railroad con-
tractors were loud. Sunday morning the
entire crowd except three or four put out on
foot in the direction Of Bainbridge
On Wednesday evening last Raymond
Porter, who resides near Gainesville, drove
into town with a two-horse wagon loaded
with cotton seed, and left his team standing
ON the public square while he stepped into o
store to transact some business. The team
took fright at something and ran away
Mrs. Jesse Wofford, from the neigheorhood
of Flowery Branch, who was in the city do
ing some shopping, happened to DO passing
through the square at the time and was run
over by the frightened horses. Those who
witnessed it say that the end of the wagon
pole struck her in the side, and while pros
trated both wheels of the loaded wagon
passed over her body. At last accounts she
was still insensible, and il was thought she
would die.
cambridge Democrat: The steamer Ada.
plying between this city and Albany sank
at the railroad wharf in this city on Tues.
day morning last at . o'clock, and lies on
her side with her cabin under water The
Ada ran afoul of a rock at the Kenton
Shoals on Thursday last and knocked hole
III her hull about ~ feet long. The crew
repaired this, sufficiently to bring her to
this city on Saturday night whera she has
since been-these repairs being strengthened
and rendered as it was thought safe. On
Monday night, however, when all were
asleep she lurched heavily to one side and
suddenly sank 1t is probable from what
we can gather that she can be raised and
her Captain and engineer have gone to AL
bany, where the Ada is owned to see about
1t. The Ada is the second boat that has
sunk at this wharf in the last four years
under similar circumstances.
A fatal encounter took place last Satur-
day night at little groggery near Flowery
Branch, Hall county, between John Orr
and Marshall A. Phillips, in which the
frmer was stabbed to the heart, and the
latter was so badly beaten over the head
with club that his life was almost de-
SPARED of when Vast heard from Both had
been drinking freely during the evening,
and quarrel ensued. Orr went off and
cut stout stick and on returning TO where
Phillips was, gave him push. Orr gave
Phillips a terrible beating with his club,
and Phillips kept on cutting at him, cutting
his clothing in many places, and also deal
ing the fatal blow. They were soon sepa-
rated, and Orr was taken into the barroom,
where he died in few minutes. A coro-
ners jury was summoned and rendered a
verdict of justifable manslaughter.
Buena Vista Patriot: A right funny
thing happened down at Andersonville last
week when the change of the run was made
TO Americas. The Andersonville people
had opposed the change, and very naturally,
from first TO the. last, but had taken no
decided measures to prevent it until the day
before the change was expected to be made.
After the train had left Andersonville Mon
day afternoon for Buena Vista the plans
began to mature, as the train was expected
to arrive there as usual the next day. A
stake was driven between the two tracks, a
long chain attached with which to secure
the Raoul and an officer in readiness
to enjoin the moving of the engine.
The people of Andersonville watched with
bated breath the arrival of the train that
morning, but no train arrived. The Presi-
dent of the road had 'smelt mousse and
intercepted their designs. He went up to
Lacrosse and had the train to go into
Americas on the new road instead of to
Andersonville.
At Calhoun on Wednesday of last week
Rev I. j. Simmons, who is cerking for J.
B. johnson, picked up SIS from the floor
which some one had dropped Dock Holden
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